Busy started off with an Instagram photo of herself standing on the sidewalk along Sunset Boulevard in L.A.’s Silver Lake neighborhood with the caption, “Seconds before I was almost murdered by a random dude in an Uber...”

In the subsequent videos -- which stayed posted to her Stories account for 24 hours before disappearing -- Philipps explained what had happened when she and her husband, Marc Silverstein, attempted to get home from dinner using the car service app.

The couple first suspected something was amiss when the SUV they’d ordered arrived but stopped farther away from them than they expected, but they got in anyway.

“I say [to Marc], ‘What’s going on, are we about to get murdered?’” Philipps recalled. “A man that we didn’t know existed in the back seat pops up, and he was like, ‘I promise that’s not going to happen.’ It was very creepy the way he chose to say it -- even though he wasn’t going to murder us, he made it seem like he might.”